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Reforesting with what? In Portugal this has mostly been with Eucalyptus and Pine (forget the variety, but less native and more flammable). Creating highly flam
by mehh 8y ago
Reforesting with what?
In Portugal this has mostly been with Eucalyptus and Pine (forget the variety, but less native and more flammable).
Creating highly flammable non native monocultures that support very little wildlife.
The reason for this is that smallholdings aren't viable, put down some eucalyptus, come back in 9 years, chop it down and get some cash. These used to be olive groves or just wild land for feeding goats etc. Sorry but the reforestation is largely a myth.
- marcus_holmes 8y agoExcept we're talking about the tree's effect on the climate. A billion stoma is a billion stoma, regardless of how many shrews live in the forest. I totally agree with you that it's not the best way of reforesting... but baby steps. At least we have more trees now.
- mehh 8y agoMaybe, I'm not sure if it actually is a gain, massive forest fires and trees that are pulped in 9 years, no idea if this benefits the climate or not when all factored in?
- marcus_holmes 8y agoyeah, maybe. Though increasing humidity and rainfall should decrease forest fires. And there's a lot of science in forest fire causation, it's not as simple as "monoculture tree plantations = more fires". Do we actually have a good grip on emissions for industries yet? I though we were still at the stage of "CO2 has gone up by this much, let's allocate that to human activities according to some metrics we made up based on guesses about emissions", but I could be wrong...